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Originally Posted by Duckie
So your friends wait 3 hours after smoking to drive? They dont do crack, meth, heroine, lsd, or shrooms all of which can very easily effect other people? I am not mad at you or your beliefs but merly trying to educate you. Do you download illegal music and or programs which makes artists and record companies less money? Have you ever broken the speed limit, not turned on your blinker, answered a cell phone call? All of these have about the same probabilty of causing a life ending accident, actually they are even more probable than a SMART streetrace causing an accident. Since you have never been part of this scene I guess you don't realize that many of the high stake races with cars that are actually fast are done on PRIVATE roads where someone is not going to be killed who is innocent. I don't condone what goes down on fridays and saturdays at all and I wish it would stop but that doesn't mean street racing should stop IMO. Not to mention it will never stop even if there were free tracks, so why not support the people who take as many precautions as possible?
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Nope. Those that I know don't wait three hours, and I think they are stupid and tell them so. Crack, meth....no, I won't befriend any folks of that sort, and driving while on a hallucinogen? Not even the dumbest of hippies that I know would do that. Illegal music? Not e-smart enough for that. Cell phone while driving? No, I'm anal about that one.
As far as backroads racing, I've done it, with a wicked fast rotary car I used to own when I was much younger and much dumber. I was part of 'this scene' though in a different area. Then I grew up, albeit after thirteen speeding tickets one year and many close calls of all sorts. A highschool friend destroyed his 68 Camaro and landed himself in the hospital after hitting a goat, yes a goat, on private road streetrace. I, too wish it would stop, and my previous posts still stand. They addressed the asshattery of the crowd that jams around the part of McCarran that I listed, the 'friday and saturday nighters'.
I'm never going to like any form of street racing, and that is that. You don't have to convert me or change my opinion...its like arguing politics or religion. People are different. We do what we do and don't what we don't. I just don't want to have to intubate or code you or any of your crew one day in the hospital.